Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 14 (LENLS 14)

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The proceedings of the workshop (USB version) will be available at the conference site for registered persons. Please follow the link below and register yourself until End of October, 2017.

Program

1st Day: November 13 (Mon)

• Lukas Rieser
"Quality as a speech-act CI and presuppositions"
• Hitomi Hirayama
"Towards a Unified Analysis of Contrastive wa as Contrastive Topic"
• Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Hadas Kotek
"Intervention tracks scope-rigidity in Japanese"

• Yulia Zinova
"Explaining prefix contributions in Russian using Frame Semantics and RSA"
• Liping Tang
"A Signaling Model for Pictorial and Alphabet Writings"
• Ilaria Frana and Keir Moulton
"Derived Nominals and Concealed Propositions"

• Fabrizio Cariani and Simon Goldstein
"Conditional heresies"
• Andres Soria Ruiz
"It's Getting Better All The Time: An Expressivist Semantics For Comparative Value Judgments"
• Dan Zeman
"Perspectival Plurality, Relativism, and Multiple Indexing"

• Ivano Ciardelli
"Two Switches in the Theory of Counterfactuals"

2nd Day: November 14 (Tue)

• Yu Izumi and Shintaro Hayashi
"Expressive Small Clauses in Japanese"
• Osamu Sawada and Jun Sawada
"The dependent property of the Japanese inferential use of no koto-da: An evidence indicator for an inferential modal statement"
• Gregoire Winterstein, Regine Lai and Zoe Luk
"Denials and negative emotions: a unified analysis of the Cantonese expressive 'gwai2'"

• Kristina Liefke
"Relating Intensional Models of Formal Semantics: established methods and surprising results"
• Oleg Kiselyov
"Transformational Semantics on a Tree Bank"
• Simon Charlow
"A modular theory of pronouns and binding"

• Robert Henderson and Eric McCready
"How Dogwhistles Work"
• Emily Lake
"Ideological legibility as a primary pragmatic process in the interpretation of implicit content"
• Eric McCready and Christopher Davis
"An Invocational Theory of Slurs"

• Craige Roberts
"CHARACTER assassination: Indexicals in a new perspective"

3rd Day: November 15 (Wed)

• Katsuhiko Yabushita
"On the suspendability of the prejacent of an only sentence"
• Hiroaki Nakamura
"Discontinuity in Potential Sentences in Japanese"
• Roussanka Loukanova
"Semantic Argument Slots in Type-Theory of Acyclic Recursion and Syntax-Semantics Interfaces in CBLG"

• Tatiana Bladier, Kilian Evang and Yulia Zinova
"Aspecto-Temporal Representation of Slavic Aktionsarten in DRT with Boxer"
• Mathieu Lafourcade, Bruno Mery, Mehdi Mirzapour, Richard Moot and Christian Retore.
"Collecting Crowd-Sourced Lexical Coercions for Compositional Semantic Analysis"
• Alastair Butler and Stephen Wright Horn
"Annotating syntax and lexical semantics with(out) indexing"

• Patrick Elliott
"An algebraic theory of attitude reports"
• Chungmin Lee
"Languages with non-factive knowledge verbs"
• Yurie Hara, Naho Orita and Hiromu Sakai
"Evidentials in Causal Premise Semantics: A Rating Study"

• Shoichi Takahashi
"Lethal Restrictors: Remedies and Ramifications"

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Organizing/Program Committee:

• Katsuhiko Sano (Hokkaido University)
• Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/JST CREST)
• Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
• Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University/JST CREST)
• Alastair Butler (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
• Richard Dietz (Yamanashi Gakuin University)
• Naoya Fujikawa (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
• Yoshiki Mori (University of Tokyo)
• Yasuo Nakayama (Osaka University)
• David Y. Oshima (Nagoya University)
• Osamu Sawada (Mie University)
• Wataru Uegaki (Leiden University)
• Katsuhiko Yabushita (Naruto University of Education)
• Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)
• Shunsuke Yatabe (Kyoto University)
• Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)

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